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JOHN GREENWOOD, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN MACHINES FOR FORCING HOOPS ON BARRELS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 145,942, dated Dccember30, 1873; application filed April 21, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, JOHN GREENWOOD, of Rochester, in the county ofMonroe, in the State of New York, have made certain Improvements inMachines for Forcing Hoops upon Oasks or Barrels, of which the followingis a specification:

In the drawings, Figure l is an upright side '\y iew of the machine, andFig. 2 is a section of same. Fig. 3 is a top view, and Fig. 4 detail.

. swung around out of the way and allow a barrel or cask to be put inposition between the rods, or be taken from such position after beingoperated upon, and when in position for operation is held by theprojecting lugs b5. Upon each of these screw-rods are projectinghook-nuts b b, that can be adjusted to any desired position upon therods by sirnply turning them upon the screw'threads cut on the rods Band B', and when they are in the required position are securely held inthat place by the jam-nuts b', that screw on the rods above thehooks-nuts b, as seen in Fig. l. rlhese hook-nuts project more on oneside of the rods B and B than on the other, so that diiferent diametersof casks or barrels can be acted upon to force the hoops thereon. C is apivoted handlever, to which is secured the horizontal shaft C', fast onwhich is the gearwheel C and pulley D. Gear-wheel O is made to be movednearly in a horizontal direction by the pivoted lever O, and gears intogear-wheel D on horizontal shaft d, that goes centrally andlongitudinally through the body A. E E are eccentrics or cams fast uponshaft d, and are caused to revolve in the proper di rection by applyingpower to pulley D', revolviug gear-wheel C, that gears into wheel D onshaft d, on which the cams E are made fast. F is a table or carriagesupporting a platen, which has an upward-proj ecting ilange, F', thattapers on its inner side outward as it rises, and hasdownward-projecting guide-legs F Fll at each side, and between which arebearingblocks f, that bear at all times upon the cams or eccentrics E,as seen in Fig. 2. Table or carriage F will slide freely up or down onguideways on the carriage, working in the body A of the machine.

The cask being set up in the usual way, and a hoop placed upon the topof the table, the set-up cask is placed in a perpendicular position, andso that the end of the cask will enter the hoop on the table, which isdown, as seen in Fig. l. Hoops are now placed upon the upper portion ofthe barrel or cask, and

the hook-nuts in proper position to take hold of them, when theoperator, by the hand-lever O, throws gear-wheel O" into gear withgearwheel D, which revolves the eccentrics or cams E, which are incontact with the bearing f at point f', and, as they revolve, theeccentrics will cause the carriage F to rise, and with it the barrel.The hook-nuts, being stationary and taking hold of the hoops, force thehoops upon the barrel as it is lifted up ward, and at the same time thebottomv hoop is driven or forced upon the bottom end of the barrel. Onerevolution of the cams, and the table or carriage, with the barrelthereon, will have been lifted to the utmost range of the increaseddiameter of the eccentric. When it arrives at that point, the table andbarrel will fall of their own weight, when the operator, by reversingthc movement of the lever, throws the gear-wheel C out of gear withwheel D, and the carriage is at rest, when thc cask can be set the otherend up, and the hoops, by a repetition of the movement of putting themachine in motion', will be driven upon the end.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent, 1s-

l. In a machine for hooping barrels, the combination of the revolvingeccentrics or cams E and table or carriage F with the hooknuts b ouscrew-rods B and B', n the manner b 011 rods B and B', constructed andopera-tsubstantially as and for the purposes deing substantially as andfor the purposes described. scribed.

2. In a. machine for hoopiug barrels, the JOHN GREENWOOD. combination ofthe vibrating drvnggear Witnesses: Wheel C, Wheel D 011 shaft al, camsE, vertic- D. L. JOHNSTON, ally-reciprocating carriage F, and hook-nutsPATRICK MCINTYRE.

